Topic Area: Child & Youth Welfare

This Presbyterian Healthcare Services Community Health Assessment provides comprehensive health data and community input for Bernalillo, Sandoval, Torrance, and Valencia counties, establishing behavioral health, social health, and physical health as the priority areas for 2023-2025 systems planning in Central New Mexico.

This community health needs assessment from Presbyterian Medical Services identifies mental health services, substance use treatment, and access to care as top priorities across 17 rural New Mexico counties, providing essential baseline data for behavioral health systems planning in underserved areas.

This Enhanced Sequential Intercept Mapping (E-SIM) report for Bernalillo County's youth system provides a comprehensive assessment of behavioral health resources, gaps, and community-prioritized recommendations for preventing youth justice system involvement through improved prevention, crisis response, and systems integration.

This is the New Mexico Medicaid Fee Schedule for Behavioral Health Providers effective January 1, 2025, establishing reimbursement rates that directly impact provider financial viability and service availability across the behavioral health system.

This is the New Mexico Department of Health's FY25-27 Strategic Plan, which establishes the state's public health priorities, organizational restructuring, and population health goals relevant to behavioral health systems planning including substance use treatment expansion, crisis services, and youth services infrastructure.

This community-driven assessment captures the voices of 173 Bernalillo County residents and service providers to inform a statewide Child and Family Services System Blueprint, documenting systemic barriers across six service sectors that directly impact behavioral health access and family stability.

This is a joint policy guidance document from the City of Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, and Albuquerque Public Schools that establishes a coordinated framework for allocating approximately $150 million in opioid settlement funds over 15 years, providing a significant new funding stream for behavioral health systems change in the region.

This statewide survey of 1,001 young adults (ages 18-22) measures recalled childhood maltreatment prevalence and community protective factors in New Mexico, providing critical baseline data for designing trauma-informed behavioral health interventions and prevention strategies.

This is the New Mexico Health Care Authority's Medicaid Behavioral Health Policy and Billing Manual (April 2025), which serves as the authoritative reference for covered services, provider requirements, and reimbursement procedures essential for behavioral health systems planning and service delivery across the state.

This quarterly surveillance report provides emergency department visit data for mental health-related incidents across New Mexico, offering critical baseline metrics for tracking behavioral health crisis utilization and informing systems capacity planning.